Silencing in Arabidopsis T-DNA transformants: The predominant role of a gene-specific RNA sensing mechanism versus position effects

Plant Cell

Volumn 16, Issue 10, 2004, Pages 2561-2572

  Schubert, Daniel ^a,b   Lechtenberg, Berthold ^a,c   Forsbach, Alexandra ^a,d   Gils, Mario ^a,e   Bahadur, Sultan ^a,f   Schmidt, Renate ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE OF MOLECULAR PLANT PHYSIOLOGY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c QIAGEN GMBH   (Germany)

^d PFIZER INC   (United States)

^e Biozentrum   (Germany)

^f Barani Agricultural Research Institute Pakistan   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DNA; GENETIC ENGINEERING; PLANTS (BOTANY); RNA;

GENE COPY NUMBER; RNA SILENCING; TRANSGENE EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE SILENCING;

GENES;

GENES; GENETIC ENGINEERING; NUCLEIC ACIDS; PLANTS;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARABIDOPSIS THALIANA;

BACTERIAL DNA; T DNA; T-DNA;

ARABIDOPSIS; ARTICLE; CAULIFLOWER MOSAIC VIRUS; GENE SILENCING; GENETICS; GENOME; PROMOTER REGION; TRANSGENE; TRANSGENIC PLANT;

ARABIDOPSIS; CAULIMOVIRUS; DNA, BACTERIAL; GENE SILENCING; GENOME, PLANT; PLANTS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; PROMOTER REGIONS (GENETICS); TRANSGENES;

EID: 12744280061     PISSN: 10404651     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1105/tpc.104.024547     Document Type: Article

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